Tom Thumb Mine: Lutetian, Washington
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Hiodontiformes
- Hiodontidae
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Eohiodon woodruffi n. sp.
Wilson 1978
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7 specimens | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Washington | County: | Ferry |
Coordinates: | 48.7° North, 118.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.7° North, 105.7° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
Key time interval: | Lutetian | Mammal zone: | Bridgerian |
Age range of interval: | 47.8 - 41.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Klondike Mountain | Member: | Tom Thumb Tuff |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "shale" |
Lithology description: fossils found in lake beds lower and middle units; lower beds are waterlaid tuff with pyroclastic texture. fossils in tuffaceous shales | |
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | many |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 189960 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2017-11-23 04:00:28 | Last modified: | 2017-11-23 04:00:28 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-11-23 04:00:28 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
63863. | M. V. H. Wilson. 1978. Eohiodon woodruffi n. sp. (Teleostei, Hiodontidae), from the middle Eocene Klondike Mountain Formation near Republic, Washington. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 15(5):679-686 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |